Juan Francisco Giro

Juan Francisco Giro (3 June 1791-8 May 1863) was President of Uruguay from 1 March 1852 to 25 September 1853, succeeding Bernardo Berro and preceding Venancio Flores. He was a National Party of Uruguay member.

Biography
Juan Francisco Jose Giro Zufriategui was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 3 June 1791, the son of a Catalan immigrant father and a mother of Basque descent. He studied in Spain and the United States and was elected to the Montevideo city council in 1816, and he later became a follower of Manuel Oribe during the Uruguayan Civil War. Giro was elected a Senator in 1852, and he also won the presidency, only to be deposed by a military mutiny backed by the Colorado Party of Uruguay. He died in 1863.